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Intimate violence : reading rape and torture in twentieth- century fiction / Laura E. Tanner. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanner, Laura E., 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Victims of crimes in literature.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Violence in literature.
- Torture in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Rape in literature.
- Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Women and literature.
- American fiction--History and criticism--20th century--English-speaking countries.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 155 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Reading rape : Sanctuary and The women of Brewster Place
- Reading torture : 1984 and Amnesty International
- Sweet pain and charred bodies : figuring violence in The white hotel
- Envisioning violence : seeing/selling the body in Last exit to Brooklyn
- American psycho and the American psyche : reading the forbidden text
- "Known in the brain and known in the flesh" : gender, race, and the vulnerable body in Tracks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-152) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-01954-1
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